To recommend to the COP at its ninth session a total programme budget for the biennium 2004−2005, and a secretariat-wide staffing table broken down by level of posts (see tables 1 and 3); To recommend to the COP at its ninth session that approved levels of resources be included in the programme budget for servicing meetings of the Convention bodies, should the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session not provide for this in the regular budget of the United Nations for the biennium 2004−2005; To request the secretariat to prepare a draft decision on the programme budget for the biennium 2004−2005, which incorporates costs of activities relating to the Kyoto Protocol, for adoption by the COP at its ninth session; To authorize the Executive Secretary to notify Parties of their 2004 contributions on the basis of the budget recommended by the SBI at its eighteenth session; To take note of the requirements for the Trust Fund for Participation in the UNFCCC Process and the Trust Fund for Supplementary Activities.
b) Recomendar a la CP, en su noveno período de sesiones, que incluya en el presupuesto por programas una partida por la cuantía aprobada de los recursos necesarios para prestar servicios a las reuniones de los órganos de la Convención, si la Asamblea General, en su quincuagésimo octavo período de sesiones, no incluía esos gastos en el presupuesto ordinario de las Naciones Unidas para el bienio 2004-2005.